It’s no secret that Japan has a lot of earthquakes. The country records more seismic activity than anywhere else in the world ...

The first Shinkansen halved the travel time between Tokyo and Osaka, changing Japanese society and the way business was ...

Happy 60 th birthday to high-speed rail. It was on October 1 st in 1964 that the Shinkansen, Japan’s revolutionary super-fast train, made its debut. Known as the “bullet train” because of its ...

There's also a reverence for Japanese culture and Japan itself that the Barcelona-based indie studio Undercoders wants to ...

All passengers were evacuated from the Tokyo-bound train. At JR Hamamatsu Station in Shizuoka Prefecture, a Tokaido Shinkansen Line train was stopped due to the release of bear repellent spray onboard ...

Members of Dallas City Council recently returned from a week-long trip to Japan, to learn from the country's rail experts on how the state can develop a high-speed rail system of its own. The visit ...

In brief: In what is the perfect illustration of how the world has changed over the last two and a half decades, Japan has stopped measuring crowding on trains using a peculiar metric: how easy it is ...

Due to the setting error, the automatic train control system gave a green light to a train entering Kajigaya Station, resulting in the train crashing into a parked train.